Child sexual extortion cases in the UK soar
www.iwf.org.uk
Charities warn threat of sexual extortion (or sextortion) against children ‘not diminishing’ as new data show sextortion cases soar 72% in a year.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37122335

  • Sexual extortion, or ‘sextortion’ scams against children and young people on the rise, with ‘hideous and callous cruelty’ used to blackmail victims.
  • Boys still at particular risk as numbers surge – making up 97% of confirmed sextortion cases seen by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
  • UK’s Report Remove service, run jointly by Childline and the IWF, sees significant rise in children self-reporting nude or sexual imagery which may have got out of control online.
    • 3dcadminAEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      awful act poorly written, thought through (!) and then implemented

    • omcgo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 day ago

      We have to look at hardware-level solutions like VOOP, which can block the sending of nudes (for example) entirely.